What the hourly rate misses
Two jobs with the same hourly wage can feel completely different once you account for how the rest of the package is put together. These are the parts that move the number.
Rotation & total hours
A 14-on, 7-off rotation and a steady 40-hour week both look like a job with a rate. One of them is double the hours.
Overtime structure
Where the daily or weekly threshold sits, and whether it's 1.5x or 2x, changes every cheque.
Job & ticket bonuses
Bonuses tied to signed tickets, days on site or monthly targets never show up in the hourly rate.
Per diem & accommodation
Subsistence and an employer-paid room stretch your pay further — but they're not wages in your pocket.
RRSP match & benefit costs
A match you don't contribute enough to earn is worth nothing. Premiums come back out of your cheque.
Truck, fuel & perks
A company pickup with fuel is worth something real. It's just not cash — we keep it in its own lane.
Travel & nights away
Travel days and nights in camp cost you time at home. We count them so you can weigh them.
Time served and market rates
Ever find out the new guy makes more than you?
It's rarely a decision anyone made on purpose. Market rates move with the cycle — busier seasons, new contracts, tighter crews — while raises inside a company run on a slower schedule. Over a few years that gap quietly opens up.
So someone with six years on the books, who shows up and gets the job done, can end up behind a person who started last month. Nobody sets out to do that. It's what happens when two clocks run at different speeds and no one writes the numbers down.
Most people find out sideways — a talk in the bunkhouse, a posting someone forwards you, years after the gap started. WRTH is about having your own information instead: your whole package in one place, so you can see where you stand and have a better-informed conversation about pay.
You shouldn't have to find out by accident what your time is worth.
How WRTH works
No accounts, no jargon. You bring the numbers off your pay stub or offer letter — we lay them out so they can be compared honestly.
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Enter your real package
Wage or salary, rotation, overtime, bonuses, per diem, RRSP and benefits. Ten minutes with your offer letter or last pay stub is enough.
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See the whole picture
Cash compensation, employer-paid contributions and non-cash perks, each shown on its own — with every assumption written out.
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Compare jobs side by side
Put two offers next to each other and see exactly where they differ — in pay, and in how much of your life they take.
What we count
Every number is either something you're paid or something your employer actually spends. We never invent a dollar value for a benefit we can't measure.
Overtime and bonuses
A lower rate with real OT can beat a higher rate without it.
Per diem and camp
Money that covers food and a bed isn't a raise — we keep it separate.
RRSP matching
An employer match is real money you earn, if you contribute enough.
Benefits
What you pay in premiums, and what the plan actually covers.
How we keep it honest
- • Cash compensation is money paid to you, shown on its own.
- • Per diem is listed separately because it offsets living costs.
- • Employer-paid hotels and camps are never counted as cash in your pocket.
- • Coverage percentages get a dollar figure only if you tell us what you spend.
- • Every assumption is written out under your results.
The number isn't the whole story
Rotations trade time at home for the paycheque.
Most oilfield and field jobs are built on rotations — days on, days off, and the travel in between. The nights away and the travel days are part of the price, and they don't show up anywhere on a pay stub. A job that pays a little more but keeps you in camp an extra week a month is a different life, not just a different rate.
WRTH counts both the dollars and the days, so when you weigh one job against another you're looking at the full picture — money in, money the employer puts in, and how much of the year you're away from home.
What's ahead
WRTH is just getting started.
What's here today is the calculator and the side-by-side comparison — that's the whole thing, and it works. What's below is what WRTH is being built toward. No launch dates, nothing to pay for, and the tools below are future direction.
Anonymous pay data
The plan is to let workers add their own compensation details with no name, employer or account attached. Anything published would be pooled and rounded — a picture of a role, not a look at one person's pay stub.
Real market benchmarks
Once enough quality submissions exist, WRTH can show ranges and midpoints by role, region, years on the job and how a package is put together. That dataset doesn't exist yet — the benchmark card says so instead of guessing.
Better tools for decisions
Tools to weigh two offers, see where your package sits, and walk into a pay conversation with your own numbers laid out in front of you. Better preparation, not a promised outcome.
The calculator helps you understand your package today. The bigger goal is to make compensation information easier to see before years of lost earning power add up.
Run your numbers before you make the call.
It takes about ten minutes, it's free, and you'll see every assumption we used.
Find Out Where You Stand
All figures are estimates in Canadian dollars, before income tax and payroll deductions. WRTH is not financial, tax or legal advice.